Harp, Ferdinand b. 10 May 1869 Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 10 Aug 1952: 1FAMILYTREE Genealogy

1869 - 1952 (83 years) Has 2 ancestors and 38 descendants in this family tree.

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Name	Harp, Ferdinand
Born	10 May 1869	Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
Gender	Male
1870 Census	1870	Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
	1870 Census Buchanan page 02 Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Biography	1911
History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0893
FERDINAND HARP, who has been identified with the agricultural interests of Buchanan township for a number of years, is now the owner of 115 acres of land in sections 26 and 27, and for the past nine years has served as road commissioner of district No. 2. He was born on the property which he is now operating, May 10, 1869, and is a son of William and Caroline (Grumall) Harp, natives of Germany. Mr. Harp's parents came to the United States in 1863, settling on forty acres of wild land which now forms a part of Ferdinand Harp's farm, where William Harp cut down trees, hewed logs and built a log house. He cleared and developed his land and resided on this property until his death, in January, 1911, when he had reached the age of eighty-two years. His wife died February 13, 1900, and both are buried in the Riverside Cemetery at Appleton. Ferdinand Harp was the fourth in order of birth of his parents' five children, and he received his education in the district schools. He always lived on the home farm and worked for his father until the latter's death, when he inherited a part of the homestead and bought the interests of the other heirs, adding seventy acres by purchase and making a total of 115 acres. He was married in 1897 to Miss Mittie Bement, daughter of Walter and Sarah (Weber) Bement, the former a native of Wisconsin and the latter of New York, and of English and Dutch descent, respectively. They were married in Wisconsin and settled in Appleton, where Mr. Bement, with Frank Clark, was the first to make sulphite pulp in the Fox River Valley. Mrs. Harp's paternal grandfather was the first city treasurer of Appleton. Her parents are both living in that city, her father being fifty-eight years old and her mother fifty-six, and they had a family of nine children, Mrs. Harp being the second in order of birth and born August 25, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Harp have had two children: Gene and Vera. He has 100 acres under cultivation, all fenced with barbed and woven wire, and he does general farming and stock raising, marketing dairy products, hogs and cattle and some hay and grain. He milks eleven cows, keeping Short Horns and Durhams, and also breeds Yorkshire hogs and Belgian horses. His frame barn, 34x54 feet, was built in 1879, and another 30x104 feet, in 1883, the latter being equipped with cow stalls. His frame two-story residence consists of twelve rooms and was built in 1885, and he secures his water for all purposes from drilled wells. In politics Mr. Harp is a Republican and for nine years he has served as road commissioner of district No. 2. With his wife, he attends the Congregational Church.
	Harp, Ferdinand Biography from History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; 1911.
Died	10 Aug 1952
Obituary	11 Aug 1952
Appleton Post Crescent
Page 10
Person ID	I105279	1FamilyTree
Last Modified	12 Oct 2015

Father	Harp, William, b. 29 Aug 1829, , , , Germany , d. 19 Jan 1911, Darboy, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA (Age 81 years)
Mother	Grumall, Caroline "Lena", b. Abt 1832, , , , Germany , d. 13 Feb 1900 (Age ~ 68 years)
Family ID	F34353	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Bement, Mittie, b. 25 Aug 1874, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. Bef 1974 (Age 99 years)

Married Abt 1897

Children

+	1. Harp, Eugene Walter, b. 9 Feb 1907, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 29 Feb 1992 (Age 85 years)
+	2. Harp, Vera, b. 15 Jan 1909, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 20 Jun 1975, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 66 years)

Last Modified 1 May 2010

Family ID F34352 Group Sheet | Family Chart